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teller

1

[ tel-er ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that tells, relates, or communicates; narrator:

    Grandpa was a great teller of tall, tall tales.

  2. a person employed in a bank to receive or pay out money over the counter.
  3. a person who tells, counts, or enumerates, as one appointed to count votes in a legislative body.


Teller

2

[ tel-er ]

noun

  1. Edward, 1908–2003, U.S. physicist, born in Hungary.

teller

1

/ ˈtɛlə /

noun

  1. another name for cashier 1
  2. a person appointed to count votes in a legislative body, assembly, etc
  3. a person who tells; narrator


Teller

2

/ ˈtɛlə /

noun

  1. TellerEdward19082003MUSHungarianSCIENCE: physicist Edward. 1908–2003, US nuclear physicist, born in Hungary: a major contributor to the development of the hydrogen bomb (1952)

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Derived Forms

  • ˈtellerˌship, noun

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Other Words From

  • teller·ship noun
  • under·teller noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of teller1

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; tell 1, -er 1

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Example Sentences

He was a magician, an invisible teller of tales with the power to make my sides ache without telling a single joke.

In fact, Teller was competing with Oppenheimer for resources.

Onscreen, Teller is a bit like a young Vince Vaughn—gregarious, charming, and a tad suspicious.

Teller took piano lessons as a kid, but quit at 14 when the lessons got “too strict.”

Teller will reteam with his Whiplash director Chazelle on La La Land, which starts shooting in the spring.

This last, which is the work of one now grown into womanhood and no longer a story-teller, is interesting in many ways.

Suppose your package is stolen by the cashier or paying teller, is the bank responsible?

Was moving even before the teller's slumping body hit the floor.

Stevenson knew well who was telling the story; David is too good a story-teller to tell what he could not know.

Meg, the fortune-teller, remained where he had left her several moments watching him with a strange, catlike intentness.

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